2026: The Year Of Living Dangerously Authored by Lawrence Kadish via The Gatestone Institute, The British were the first to develop the aircraft carrier as an emerging weapon of war. But it was the Japanese who perfected the ship by combining as many as four aircraft carriers into a single battle group and deploying a task force that led to their devastating strike against the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. […]

Are Fireworks Integral To New Year’s Eve? Fireworks are bad for the environment, distressing to animals and people with conditions such as PTSD, as well as dangerous – resulting in thousands of injuries in the United States alone each year. Yet, come New Year’s Eve, they are set off all around the world, as the clock strikes 12 in one timezone after another. In the U.S, the market is even booming, with the U.S. fireworks […]

Obama’s Trojan Horse: How His Refugee Machine Engineered The Billion-Dollar Looting Of US Treasury Authored by X user Saggezza Etern, Obama’s Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Empire The Heist You Paid For Imagine waking up tomorrow to find your bank account empty. Every dollar you saved for your children’s tuition, your retirement, your security—gone. Now imagine looking out the window and seeing the thief driving a Porsche […]

China’s EV Makers Are Powering Southeast Asia’s Bus Revolution Chinese-made electric buses are rapidly gaining ground across Southeast Asia as governments push to decarbonize public transport and Chinese manufacturers seek growth beyond a slowing home market, according to Nikkei Asia. In Jakarta, that shift is already visible. Transjakarta, the capital’s main bus operator, introduced electric buses from China’s BYD in 2022. It […]

US Instructs Its Western-Nation Embassies To Report On Abuses Due To Mass Immigration Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of State has instructed U.S. embassies located in Western nations to report human rights abuses occurring there due to mass immigration, according to a Dec. 30 thread on X. The embassies will “analyze government policies that facilitate mass migration or privilege migrants over […]

Trans Covenant School Shooter Made Pros-And-Cons List Before Massacre The public has been waiting for years to see the contents of Audrey Hale’s journals and manifesto ever since she shot and killed three students and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27, 2023. Her writings were kept under wraps for years by the Biden administration and local law enforcement as court battles dragged on, […]

Trump Pulls National Guard Out Of Chicago, Los Angeles & Portland President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he’s pulling National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland.  “We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” he wrote on Truth Social, adding […]

New Trump-Xi Showdown Approaches As Chinese Tankers Press Ahead To Venezuela Despite Blockade Two Chinese-flagged very large crude carriers are proceeding toward Venezuelan waters despite a U.S.-imposed blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, raising the prospect of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over Venezuela’s crude exports. Thousand Sunny oil tanker (photo: Tommy Chia) Shipping data published by Lloyd’s List on […]

In Texas, A 400-Acre Muslim Development Sparks Controversy Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, JOSEPHINE, Texas – This rural town with farmland stretching to the horizon might as well be a million miles away from New York City with its skyscrapers and big-city worries. But the residents of the Big Apple and Josephine have something in common—controversy over the construction of a mosque. Perhaps not […]

Hundreds Of Thousands In Moscow Experience Rare ‘Total Blackout’ After Drone Wave Something very rare just happened in Moscow. Large swathes of Russian capital were plunged into darkness Wednesday after a swarm of inbound Ukrainian drones resulted in a fire at a key electrical substation. People reported widespread outages across the Moscow region, including a “total blackout” in areas southeast of the capital, leaving homes […]

Americans Will Drop Everything (And Anything) To Celebrate New Year’s Eve Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Millions worldwide will watch a crystal ball descend 139 feet down a flagpole in Manhattan’s Time Square as a throng of thousands counts down the last 10 seconds of 2025 and ushers in 2026 in a blizzard of confetti and a cacophony of kazoos, party horns, whistles, and whatever else imaginative noisemakers can […]

National Guard Patrols New Orleans Ahead Of New Year Amid Vehicle-Ramming Threats Weeks after National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent warned that thousands of known and suspected terrorists entered the U.S. during the Biden-Harris regime years of a nation-killing open-border invasion, and days after a U.S. government threat assessment flagged elevated risks from lone wolves and small terror cells potentially targeting […]

Citizen Journalists Uncover Defunct Shell Organization Linked To 40 Ohio Daycares Update (1520ET): Dozens of citizen journalists are combing through public filings and conducting on-the-ground investigations in corrupt Democratic-run cities, aiming to map out the scale of an alleged Somali-linked welfare fraud network. The on-the-ground footage these journalists have posted on X suggests that some daycare operations may be front […]

Investors Scoop Up 40% Of Vacant Lots Sold After Los Angeles Fires: Report Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Almost a year after January’s devastating California wildfires, real estate investors have been buying up nearly 40 percent of the land sold in the areas impacted by the fires. A Dec. 30 report from Redfin stated that many of these now-empty lots once retained some of the nation’s most expensive homes, […]

Swalwell Pledges To Arrest ICE Agents And Take Away Their Driver’s Licenses Authored by Jonathan Turley, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Cal.) will not be outdone again. Recently, Swalwell was outvoted in Congress by a colleague who had died months earlier.  Now, he is ensuring that, when it comes to violating the Constitution, no one is even close. This week, Swalwell pledged that, if elected California governor, he will arrest ICE […]

Iran Protesters Try To Break Into Govt Building In 4th Consecutive Night Of Unrest Update(1440ET): Al Jazeera is reporting that groups of Iranian protesters have been observed trying to breaking into government buildings, a trend which could grow to various places: Iranian protesters demonstrating over economic hardship and a plummeting currency attempted to break into a local government building, state media reported, as the […]

Russia Presents Its Evidence Of Ukrainian Drone Attack On Putin’s Residence “We’re going to see some escalation now,” Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt has said amid allegations Ukraine targeted Putin’s residence. “The Russians have made up their minds and made declarations about who they believe tried to strike the Valdai mansion that’s owned by President Putin, and they’re going to change their negotiable posture.” For […]

Moore: Economists Got 2025 All Wrong Authored by Stephen Moore via DailyCaller.com, Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The “chumps” in this case were the “blue chip” academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was for high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts. As you’ve probably heard, the GDP growth for Q3 came in at a red hot 4.3% […]

2025 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead One year ago, when looking at the 20 most popular stories of 2024, we said that “while 2024 had a seemingly endless variety of social, economic, political, geopolitical and of course, financial and market, drama, the unprecedented onslaught of 2022 and 2023 – which saw both the deadliest and most consequential global war since WWII and a historic […]

The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, The panic and outrage were palpable last February when President Trump announced plans to trim reimbursement rates for government-funded scientific research. “This is going to decimate U.S. scientific biomedical research,” Northwestern University biologist Carole Labonne told Bloomberg. “The lights will go out, […]

DOJ’s Inventory Of Unreleased Epstein Files Soars To 5.2 Million Pages Already in violation of a statutory deadline and accused of engaging in rampant, unlawful redactions, it’s been revealed that the US Department of Justice has about 5.2 million pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that still need to be reviewed, according to a document reviewed by Reuters and inside sources cited by the New York […]

“This Is A Perfect Storm”: Martin Armstrong Warns ‘War Is Coming’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says everywhere you look there is big trouble bubbling out of control.   Armstrong sees the perfect storm closing in from all sides.  Let’s start with the war in Ukraine.  It looks like peace was possible until Russia claimed Ukraine attacked Putin’s […]

Crew Paints Russian Flag On Iran-Linked Tanker To Avoid US Seizure The weird saga of the US-sought third tanker off Venezuela which was nearly boarded by US forces before fleeing into the Atlantic continues, after US officials have newly revealed more information. US attempts to intercept the oil tanker Bella 1 in the Atlantic have been complicated after the ship’s crew painted a Russian flag on its hull. It has avoided and […]

High Electricity Prices Are A Choice Blue States Make Every Day Authored by Isaac Orr & Tom Pyle via RealClearEnergy, Americans are anxious about their utility bills – and with good reason. Three quarters of U.S. residents are concerned about their electricity and gas bills rising this year, and 80% feel powerless over how much they are charged for utilities. For nearly two-thirds of U.S. billpayers, simply keeping the lights […]

“Regulatory Theater”: Meta Created ‘Playbook’ To Obscure Scam Ads From Regulators, Avoid Forced Verification Last month Reuters revealed that roughly 10% of Meta’s annual revenue, or $16 billion, comes from advertising scams and banned goods – as the company only bans advertisers when its systems detect a 95% probability of fraud, while charging higher ad fees to suspicious buyers – a system critics describe as “pay to […]